Friday, 7 February 2014

Wife logs on to FB to discover her husband had married another woman

A bigamist was caught by his wife after she saw a photograph of him grinning with his new Gambian teenage bride on Facebook. Nicolette
Smith was further devastated when she noticed Stephen Smith, 52, had
married Awa Jobarteh, 19, (pictured above) at the same African register office they tied
the knot at 7 years earlier.Ms Smith then called the police, but
incredibly her cheating former partner has avoided jail and claimed he
was the victim. Continue...

The factory worker had been abandoned
by his new young bride two days after arriving back in the UK, and she
has never been traced.Nicolette
(pictured above right) met her husband in 2001, after his first
divorce, but has been left in financial ruin after their marriage
breakdown.

She was declared bankrupt when Smith failed to pay the mortgage and is
still waiting for her husband to sign divorce papers, Teesside Crown
Court was told.

The 52-year-old was prosecuted for
bigamy after he admitted 'hastily' rushing down the aisle with his
third wife because he was in love.

The court heard that the day before the wedding Smith signed a petition for divorce from his
second wife, which carried a signature purporting to be by Nicolette - but it was faked. Nicolette
admitted she was disappointed that he was given a six-month prison
sentence suspended for two years with 150 hours' unpaid work.

'I
feel as though he's got away with this and has been portrayed as some
kind of victim himself after all that he's put me through. He knew if he
responded to my divorce petition, he'd give away where he'd been
hiding,' she said.

Discussing
the way he was dumped by his new bride she told The Sun: 'She looked so
young in the pictures and he looked a little pathetic. I don't know
what else he could have expected'.Smith
claimed he was a wronged victim, duped and abandoned by his latest
spouse after he met her in Gambia, married her on November 7, 2012 and
brought her to the UK.

Smith married his second wife in December 2005. The marriage broke down two years later. He
went missing and her solicitors received no reply in efforts to start
divorce proceedings. She then reported him to the police when she found
out that he'd remarried.Smith admitted a charge of bigamy, his first crime but said he had thought he was divorced and that his divorce was 'automatic'.

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